psychopathic personality
Britishnoun
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As with other permanent conditions, these aspects of his psychopathic personality will not change.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2023
In 1991, Duvall was civilly committed as a psychopathic personality and sent to the Minnesota Sex Offender Program.
From Fox News ● Sep. 20, 2018
It’s no insult to Howerton to say that Dennis’s character can mostly be conveyed by an inert, silent dummy; his strutting, preening, psychopathic personality comes through just by looking at the doll’s blank face.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 7, 2018
Waddington, the medical officer at Durham Prison, acknowledged Evans's "abnormal personality" and thought most doctors would consider him an individual with a "psychopathic personality, using this term in the broadest sense".
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2017
He also showed striking evidences of a psychopathic personality with a strong suggestion of epilepsy, but with intact intelligence.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
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